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When nonprofit boards struggle with community accountability and internal resistance

Our nonprofit board keeps making decisions about programs that serve communities we're not part of, and when community members push back, half the board gets defensive and the other half wants to completely restructure how we operate. We're paralyzed between maintaining stability and actually listening.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A group is discovering that their good intentions cannot bridge the gap between their identity and their impact.

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